I wasn’t able to get much of the additional post-game quotes material in the paper, so I’ll add it here.

First, as noted in the game story, Roy said he didn’t ever think his job was in danger, and he went on to say he understood he needed to look in the mirror. I also had included my conversation with him in Dallas Thursday in the game story that night. Here are some of his additional post-game remarks Saturday.

— “We all know we have to do things a bit different next year to be more successful and make the playoffs. It’s the objective we have, to make the playoffs, there’s no doubt about that. . . There are things in our game that are going to have to change. There are things in our game that are going to have to improve. Especially when the third period comes in, we have to find ways to hold on to leads or ties and bring those games to overtime.”

— I asked how much he would tweak or re-examine his system.

“There are things I would like to improve,” he said. “One thing I’ve been trying to do is adapt to the team, and if I thought we were struggling on our tracking, I would try to facilitate this. Maybe I should to try to persevere and try to be tougher in the message that that’s how we want to play. . . Neutral zone forecheck, we could make some changes here and there. But the forecheck I thought was really good. The D-zone coverage, can we be better on putting more pressure on the defensemen when they have the puck? Yes. Is it an adjustment we tried to make in the season? Yes, we have. But the big deal in our D-zone coverage is our gap. It’s also the turnovers. These are the things we’re going to have to improve. If we turn over the puck like we’ve been doing this year, it’s obvious that we’re going to spend a lot of time in our end.”

— The Avalanche actually was decent on the road, going 22-19. But at home, Colorado was 17-20-4.

“Our home record is not good enough,” Roy said. “We had 44 points on the road and 38 at home,” he said. “Come on, for a team what wants to make the playoffs, that doesn’t work. That was the part I tried to pinpoint and put my finger on … I have my ideas, obviously, like probably everyone here has. But at the end of the day, it’s hard to understand.”

— On blowing leads in the third period:

“The first year I got here, we were going into the third periods and we couldn’t believe we could lose that hockey game,” Roy said. “This year, since the first game of the season (a collapse against Minnesota), when we lost that game, it really made us very fragile. Every time we were going into the third, I think we carried that game all year long in the third period. It really hit us hard and it was something we’re going to have to approach next year and have to be stronger in the third period, especially mentally. . . We need to play smart hockey, simple decisions with the puck.”

— In the dressing room, Matt Duchene said that after the recent back-to-back losses to Philadelphia and Minnesota, “it took the wind out of our sails. I think we counted ourselves out rather than staying with it and making sure we kept going.”

Duchene said of Sakic’s confirmation of Roy’s return: “I’m not surprised. None of us thought that Patty was on the hot seat. Those guys have a plan and they’re carrying it out, year to year. . . All of us as a group have to do our best and if they make changes, they make changes. If they don’t, they don’t, and we have to be ready for next season.”

— Captain Gabe Landeskog said: “It doesn’t feel good, no doubt, kind of empty. The last few days, after the Nashville game, you don’t really know how to handle it. You’re frustrated, you’re mad, you’re upset, and all of those things mixed into one. It’s not a good feeling. . . As much as I hate to say it, it feels like we played our worst hockey at the worst possible time. We gave ourselves a chance all season to be in the mix come March, and to be in a playoff spot, and we kept losing the big games, even with home ice.”

At his media availability Saturday, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic said he had liked what he had seen from late-season acquisitions Mikkel Boedker and Shawn Matthias and would want them back, if it could be worked out.

Both could become unrestricted free agents on July 1, and the problem with Boedker is that the Arizona Coyotes balked at his camp’s parameters for a contract extension and the Avalanche’s tendency to cite “structure” could come into play.

Here’s what Boedker told me after the morning skate in Dallas Thursday: “There’s no decision as of right now. I’ve enjoyed my time here so far and we’ll see what happens in the summer.”

Boedker finished with 17 goals and 34 assists in 80 games with the Coyotes and Avalanche, and his totals for Colorado alone were four goals and eight assists in 18 games.

Matthias had six goals and five assists in 20 games after his acquisition from Toronto. He gave the Avalanche a big body who could go to the net and score or create opportunities.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.